Prologue. Moving from the margins -- On freedom and the will to adorn: the African American essay -- Voices of thunder: nineteenth-century black oratory and the development of the African American essay -- On art and such: debating aesthetics during the Harlem Renaissance -- Stranger at home: James Baldwin on what it means to be an American -- The mystery of American identity: Ralph Ellison -- On women, rights, and writing: June Jordan and Alice Walker -- Epilogue. Essaying in the digital age.
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